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U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

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including approval of new appointments and acceptances of resignations, as are necessary within the total income and surplus of the Association, provided that: appointments of head coaches and administrative officers and assignments of funds for new projects or nonrecurring capital expenditures in excess of $10,000 shall be presented to the Board for approval. A copy of the budget is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record.

On motion of Mr. Hahn, this budget was approved.

BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION RECOMMENDATIONS O N EDUCATION IN THE HEALTH FIELDS (3) I recommend that the Board of Trustees endorse the Recommendations on Education in the Health Fields as approved by the Board of Higher Education on June 4, 1968. I further recommend that the President of the University be authorized to formulate plans for the implementation of the recommendations insofar as they apply to the University of Illinois, subject to continuing review by the Board of Trustees as appropriate. The President of the University and the Executive Vice-President and Provost presented a summary of the Board of Higher Education recommendations as approved on June 4 and discussed their relevance to the University of Illinois' original proposals — see Board minutes of October 16, 1967 — and to the University's capital requests for the next biennia. O n m o t i o n of M r . C l e m e n t , t h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a p p r o v e d unanimously. UNIVERSITY BUILDING PROGRAM FOR 1 9 6 9 - 7 1 (4) Submitted herewith are the building program and estimates of capital appropriations required for the biennium of 1969-71. The buildings and other capital improvements listed are recommended by the Executive Vice-President and Provost, as Chairman of the University Building Program Committee. 1 This Committee has received and reviewed recommendations by the chancellors for their respective campuses. T h e campus programs were prepared with the advice of campus planning committees, and after consultation with the deans, directors, and other administrative officers concerned. With the concurrence of the University Council on Administration, I recommend approval of this capital program by the Board of Trustees for filing with the State Department of Finance, as required by law, and for presentation to the state administration, the Board of Higher Education, and other state agencies involved in budget review. The University has television-production facilities at all three of its campuses, but none has capacity to produce in color. T h e lack of capability for producing live or taped programs in color seriously limits the effectiveness of the University's use of this medium, which serves the following educational purposes: (a) oncampus instruction (closed circuit, at all three campuses); (b) off-campus adult education (broadcasting at Urbana-Champaign; distribution of taped programs at all three campuses); (c) education of students for professional careers in television (Urbana-Champaign and Chicago Circle campuses). Given the current (and changing) state of television technology and the corresponding expectations of viewers, color capability has become a virtual necessity if the University is to perform these varied functions at even minimally satisfactory levels. The following facts and considerations support this conclusion: 1. Illinois commercial stations have increasingly declined to accept the University's taped black and white programs. (Virtually all Illinois television stations now broadcast in color and produce local programs in color.)

1 The University Building Program Committee: Lyle H. Lanier, Executive Vice-President and Provost, Chairman; Danie! Alpert, Dean of the Graduate College; Joseph S. Begando, Chancellor of the Medical Center Campus; Herbert E. Carter, Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the Urbana-Champaign Campus; Herbert O. Farber, Vice-President and Comptroller; Herbert A. Laitinen, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Urbana-Champaign Campus; John P. Marbarger, Professor of Physiology and Director of the Research Resources Laboratory at the Medical Center Campus; Daniel C. McCluney, Jr., Dean of Faculties at the Chicago Circle Campus; Norman A. Parker, Chancellor of the Chicago Circle Campus; Jack W. Peltason, Chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign Campus. (Messrs. Laitinen, Marbarger, and McCluney are also Chairmen of the Planning Committees for their respective campuses.)